A Texas yoga teacher accused of gunning down knowledgeable bike owner in a love-triangle murder was returned to the US Saturday, days after she was caught hiding out in Costa Rica.
Fugitive Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, had altered her look – and may have even gotten cosmetic surgery – after she fled the nation final month within the wake of the homicide of 25-year-old Anna Moriah Wilson.
In ABC 13 video, a masked Armstrong is seen in cuffs as she’s escorted by US Marshals right into a ready car at George Bush Worldwide Airport. She doesn’t reply a reporter’s questions and hides her face from the information digicam, the video reveals.
She was taken to Harris County Jail and can be transferred to Austin, the place she’ll face homicide prices in Wilson’s demise, in keeping with KXAN-TV.
Armstrong is accused of killing Wilson in an Austin dwelling on Could 11 after the bike owner spent the day with Armstrong’s boyfriend Colin Strickland, additionally a professional bike owner. Strickland and Wilson had a romantic fling, and met up when Wilson got here to city from San Francisco to organize for a bicycle race, cops mentioned.
After Austin cops questioned her within the murder, Armstrong bought her Jeep Grand Cherokee that was noticed on surveillance footage exterior of the crime scene. She took the $12,200 from the sale and hopped a flight to New York Metropolis, then days later used another person’s passport to fly out of Newark, NJ to Costa Rica.
She was arrested at a hostel in Santa Teresa Seaside Wednesday, together with her hair dyed darker and minimize shoulder size, US Marshals Service officers mentioned. She additionally had a bandage on her nostril and bruises below her eyes, with a witness telling Inside Version he discovered a $6,350 receipt for cosmetic surgery that was left behind when she was taken away in cuffs.
Armstrong’s bond can be set at $3.5 million and be topic to GPS monitoring, KXAN reported.
The Wilson household shared a press release with The Publish that thanked Austin cops, US Marshals and others for his or her “diligence” find Armstrong.
“We’re relieved to know this section of uncertainty is now behind us, and we belief that justice will prevail,” the assertion mentioned. “We’d wish to ask for the media to respect our privateness presently, as they’ve over the past six weeks.”
